Are You Khloe Kardashian Or Amber Rose?
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A Guy Persuaded Karl Pilkington To Do A Hilarious Marriage Proposal Video
This is great.
Author Lee Brickley somehow managed to get Pilkington to do this for Valentine's Day this year.
It really doesn't get more romantic than this.
I just wanted to do something special for Joanne because she is a very special lady, so I contacted Karl and he was happy to help me out.
After a few emails, the video was sorted. And now, as you have seen, it's gone viral.
What a way to mark to occasion! Now we have to get ready for a wedding in Las Vegas in a couple of years!
Just remember guys:
Sky
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Watch John Oliver Destroy The Tobacco Industry In His Latest Tirade
#JeffWeCan.
Last night, John Oliver chose to harpoon the tobacco industry on Last Week Tonight.
With mention of Australia's strict anti-smoking laws which mandate plain packaging, Oliver described the drastically falling sales – in contrast with the rest of Asia, which the tobacco industry has targeted.
HBO / Via youtube.com
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Kristen Bell Has A Strong Message For Anti-Vaxxers
Tell ‘em, girl.
She told The Hollywood Reporter:
When Lincoln was born [in March 2013], the whooping cough epidemic was growing, and before she was 2 months old, we simply said [to friends], "You have to get a whooping cough vaccination if you are going to hold our baby."
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What Is Peak Channing Tatum For You?
At first you were like eh? And now you’re holy fucking shit what are my eyes even looking at right now.
Thank you for participating in this poll made for purely scientific reasons. Also...
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19 Australian Designers That Will Change The Way You Get Dressed
Your morning Instagram habit is about to become seriously life-changing. Or, outfit-changing at the very least.
Emma Mulholland
In five words: Proof life's better when unusual.
Maurie & Eve
In five words: Just found a new staple.
Alice McCall
In five words: If only summer lasted forever.
Bec & Bridge
In five words: Perfect for the perfect night.
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If "Supernatural" Characters Had Tinder
Dating just became a whole different kind of Hell.
Dean Winchester
The CW
Sam Winchester
The CW
Castiel
The CW
Crowley
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Damo And Darren From "Ciggy Butt Brain" Are Back And Still So, So Real
Fuckin’ listen to me when I’m givin’ ya life advice.
Michael Cusack, genius behind viral hits like "Ciggie Butt Brain" and "YOLO" has released a new Damo and Darren short.
As with all his videos, Cusack perfectly captures the underbelly and reality of Australian culture.
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Egyptian Doctors Think This Torturous Exam Can Detect "Chronic Homosexuals"
Anal exams are performed by police in many countries that criminalize homosexuality — and they base their work on 150-year-old European science. BuzzFeed News’ J. Lester Feder and Maged Atef report from Cairo.
Dr. Maged Louis in his office in Cairo.
Maged Atef/BuzzFeed
CAIRO — When asked to explain what Cairo's medical inspectors look for when they examine someone who's been arrested for homosexuality, Dr. Maged Louis picked up a pen and started sketching an oval with sharp points on both ends.
"The shape of the hole will change," he said. The anus "won't be normal any more and will look like the female vagina."
More than 150 people have been arrested on charges of homosexuality since President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi took power just under two years ago, the largest roundup of alleged LGBT people in more than a decade in Egypt. Anal exams are a routine part of the investigation in such cases, and Louis has a role in overseeing all of them. He is the deputy director of the Justice Ministry's Forensic Medical Authority, as well as the chief of forensic medicine for the Cairo police district.
"First we make them take the prostrate position — the position that Muslims take when they pray," he said in an interview with BuzzFeed News. The tests are intended not just to determine whether someone has ever had anal sex, but also to detect "chronic homosexuals," because the letter of Egyptian law only criminalizes men who engage in "habitual debauchery." Louis said that he believed that in addition to their elongation, the anuses of "chronic homosexuals" also don't clench when touched or don't contract as tightly. They are smooth and lack the "corrugations" — wrinkles — found on "normal" anuses, he said. And though he denied that examiners penetrate subjects under examination, he also said they can detect a "chronic homosexual" if his anus can accept larger objects.
"A normal man's anus can't take more than one joint of the small finger," he said.
International human rights and medical experts dismissed Louis's checklist as having "no medical basis" and being "categorically not true." Most of those interviewed by BuzzFeed News couldn't contain their shock before all of the criteria were listed.
"I think you heard my laugh — I think that says it all," said Dr. Joel Palefsky, a professor at the University of California San Francisco specializing in anal cancer who is president of the International Anal Neoplasia Society. "We run a clinic where we do anal examinations of thousands of patients ... Never in my 20 years of doing this have I seen an anus that looks like a vagina."
Human Rights Watch and other advocacy organizations have long denounced such anal exams — which are routine in several of the world's roughly 80 countries that criminalize sodomy — as a form of torture that violates international law. Medical leaders in some of the countries where these exams are used have called for their abolition, such as in Lebanon.
But Louis was incredulous that anyone could doubt his inspectors' work.
"All of what I said is science and written in books," he said. "Doctors all over the world know that."
The idea that inspectors are intentionally fabricating evidence because of their own homophobia isn't what makes these exams so disturbing — though that does sometimes happen, according to defendants' accounts. It's that beliefs about homosexuality are leading doctors — some of whom have done extensive (and horrific) research into perfecting diagnostic techniques — to believe that what they are doing is science.
Men who were arrested by police looking for gays at a Cairo public bathhouse hide their faces after being acquitted.
Amir Nabil / Via AP
One of the modern pioneers in anal examinations in Egypt was Dr. Aymen Fouda, Louis' predecessor as deputy director of the Forensic Medical Authority, who went on to become chief medical inspector from 2005 through 2007.
During a 2003 interview with Scott Long, then-director of Human Rights Watch's LGBT program, Fouda said the exams were based on techniques developed in Europe.
"In this kind of investigation there are six criteria which were established by the celebrated Frenchman [Auguste Ambroise] Tardieu," Fouda said, referring to the 19th-century forensic doctor who published a book in 1857 called The Forensic Study of Assaults against Decency. In the book, Tardieu spelled out six "characteristic signs" of "habitual pederasty," which included those described by Dr. Louis as well as sores and fissures. But, he wrote, "[t]he unique sign and the only unequivocal mark of pederasty" is an "infundibuliform" — or funnel-shaped — anus.
Fouda told Long that forensic experts were working on developing "new, advanced methods" to detect homosexuality "involving the use of electricity." Fouda had co-authored a 1998 study published in a journal published by the Egyptian Society of Forensic Medical Sciences that experimented with inserting hypodermic needles into the muscle of the anus in "unanesthetized humans" which claimed to demonstrate that gay men's anuses conduct electricity at a different rate. Other researchers continued experimenting with related methods, including a doctoral student who defended a dissertation at Ain Shams University — one of Egypt's most prestigious — in 2003 entitled "Medico-legal Assessment of the Anal Sphincter Functions in Sodomists."
Tardieu's theories were suspect in Europe even when they were first published, said Khaled Fahmy, a historian of Egyptian forensic medicine at the American University of Cairo who has studied its translation into Arabic.
"Even back then this is a highly ideological book," he told BuzzFeed News, part of a "morals campaign" that was a response to events in Paris at the time. And he thought it "would be shocking" to the Egyptian public if it were widely known that courts were continuing to treat examinations as serious evidence that were based on science that was 150 years old.
But, he speculated, they endure in part because they reinforce certain basic notions about homosexuality that circulate in Egypt: that it is like a disease, usually passed on to children through sexual abuse.
"There is a belief that this abuse during childhood will leave a physical mark, and it leaves a mark on the anus," he said. "We now have a homosexual body — not only a homosexual character which is a defective character, but it has physical traces that a forensic doctor can discern."
And though these anal exams now seem laughable in Europe and the United States, the belief that a detectable physical basis for sexual orientation persists into the 21st century. In 2010, the Czech Republic announced that it would stop subjecting gay refugees to a practice called "phallometry" or "penile plethysmography" — which involves attaching a pressure-sensing device to the refugee's penis while he is shown heterosexual pornography — after it was denounced as "degrading treatment" by the United Nations Refugee Agency.
The same belief for a measurable sign of homosexuality also lingers in the hunt for a "gay gene," suggests Graeme Reid, the current head of Human Rights Watch's LGBT program. Though the argument that homosexuality is determined by biology has been very effective for the LGBT rights movement in the U.S. and Europe, Reid said, efforts to isolate a "gay gene" are also based on a simplistic, "flawed cultural assumption" about the biological basis of sexuality.
"The idea that there is kind of one causation for sexuality seems absurd given what we know about the complexity of human sexuality," Reid said.
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Turkish Women Post Selfies In Black Clothes After Student Reportedly Killed Fighting Off Rape Attempt
Three men have been arrested in connection with the death of 20-year-old Özgecan Aslan, whose body was found on Friday.
Many of the women used the hashtag #ÖzgecanIçinSiyahGiy ("wear black for Özgecan"), or simply a hashtag of the student's name, Özgecan Aslan.
Men posted selfies in black too.
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27 Books That Will Get You All Hot And Bothered
Read in public at your own risk. (Based on the user-voted Top 100 Romance Novels on Goodreads.)
Berkley Books
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California Teen Fatally Shoots Himself Playing Russian Roulette
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department has ruled the death, which occurred early Monday morning, an accident.
A 17-year-old boy was pronounced dead Monday after shooting himself in the head during a game of Russian roulette, a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department representative told BuzzFeed News.
Nick Ut / Associated Press
The "game" involves inserting a bullet into the cylinder of a gun, spinning the chamber, aiming at the head, and firing.
In a statement prepared by the sheriff's office, the victim announced that he was playing the game in his bedroom to two of his friends, who are also 17 years old. According to reports, the witnesses asked him repeatedly not to do it.
The homicide unit is still investigating whether or not the weapon, a .38 revolver, was registered, and if so, who the owner was.
Donald Gordon works as a security guard at the residence. When he heard the gunfire, he rushed to the front door and told ABC News, "When she opened the door, I see one guy in there, face full of blood."
The victim was rushed to the hospital after officers arrived, and was later pronounced dead.
He lived in Torrance, a southern California suburb, with his older brother and his brother's wife.
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You Can Now Pay Over $12K To Get Your Own "Fifty Shades Of Grey" Experience
It involves a helicopter ride, a luxury apartment, and, yes, a playroom. :0
By now, everyone knows that, in Fifty Shades of Grey, Christian Grey's main appeal is that he's an attractive bachelor with mad cash flow.
UGH, I want that so bad!*
*his apartment.
Universal Pictures / Via jamiesdornann.tumblr.com
Now, thanks to something called The Fifty Shades of Grey Experience, you can recreate the highs of Christian and Ana's relationship with your very own Christian.
!!!
Women living in NYC or L.A. pay $12,397 to get a "Christian Grey" to take them to dinner and a helicopter ride overlooking the city.
Universal Pictures / Via missxsteele.tumblr.com
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14 Things All Italian Grandmothers Say
Nonna knows best.
“You need to eat more.”
"Are you sick or something? You eat now."
“What do you mean you’re not hungry? Of course you are!”
"Children these days are so fussy. There was no such thing as gluten intolerance in my day. Or lactose intolerance."
Comedy Central / Via media.giphy.com
"You're looking far too skinny."
"I need to fatten you up."
ITV
“Youth these days are always on their phones.”
"They've lost ALL their social skills!"
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Russell Brand: "Tony Abbott Should Feel Guilt Over Children In Detention"
“First we vilify them, then hide them, then ignore them.”
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14 Celeb Transformations That'll Give You Hope
Seeing how these celebs turned it around…proves nothing is impossible.
BuzzFeedVideo / Via youtube.com
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POLL: Should You Tell Someone When You Have A Dream About Them?
Or keep it to yourself? So, you know, they don’t assume you always think about them in bed.
Each and every night, millions of people around the world have dreams about people they know.
Sometimes, it makes total sense why a certain person appeared in your midnight brain adventure. Other times, however, it makes no sense at all.
Partizan Films / Via giphy.com
While at times, dreams with unexpected guest appearances might make you cringe, most of the time the plot of the dream is just as random as the person part of it.
In fact, most of the time these dreams are pretty damn entertaining.
Focus Features / Via giphy.com
The question is: Should you tell that person about your dream next time you see them? Or, keep it to yourself, so there's no chance they think you're a massive creep? Let's settle this once and for all.
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This Is Exactly How Many Spiders In Australia Can Kill You
Incy wincy spider…
Australia is famous for being home to dangerous animals and insects - with huge, terrifying spiders putting many people off coming to the country.
So how many spiders in Australia can actually kill you?
Technically the answer is two... but don't start packing your bags to flee the country just yet!
The Redback spider
Auscape / Getty Images
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The Easiest "Office" Quiz You'll Ever Take
Seriously.
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11 Epic Facts About Lefties
“Give left-handers some love!”
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